After focusing on Rio de Janeiro, Beijing and Abu Dhabi, the artist and filmmaker Sarah Morris has trained her lens on Hong Kong with the release of ETC, which captures the underlying interconnections of its people.
Whether gaining access to film inside the White House Cabinet Room, the Bird’s Nest Stadium during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Oscars, or even inside Hong Kong’s notoriously restricted shipping container terminals, a certain fearlessness is required to be Sarah Morris.
Since 1998, the British-American artist has been creating films about cities in a post-globalised world. Her first, Midtown, shot on a single day in New York, introduced her fascination with the psychology of urban environments. Her subjects then expanded further afield to Los Angeles (2004), Beijing (2008), Rio (2012) and Abu Dhabi (2017) – and now, with the release this month of ETC, she’s tackling Hong Kong.
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